American Bar Association
Bright Spots Amid Glum Jobs Outlook
April 27, 2014
Top law schools place their graduates, but elsewhere "the future remains grim." Top law schools are able to place most of their graduates in associate positions, but elsewhere the future remains grim according to employment stats released last week by the American Bar Association. Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202651684724/Bright-Spots-Amid-Glum-Jobs-Outlook#ixzz2zWPNt7dI
April 27, 2014
Top law schools place their graduates, but elsewhere "the future remains grim." Top law schools are able to place most of their graduates in associate positions, but elsewhere the future remains grim according to employment stats released last week by the American Bar Association. Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202651684724/Bright-Spots-Amid-Glum-Jobs-Outlook#ixzz2zWPNt7dI
Theory: The Time Was Never Better to Enroll in Law School
April 19, 2014
Is now the ideal time to enroll in law school? Steven Freedman, assistant dean for admissions at the University of Kansas School of Law, has been making the counterintuitive case that it is. In a series of posts on the law professor blog The Faculty Lounge, he argues that the relatively small number of people set to graduate with J.D.s in 2017 will mean better job prospects for those who do. In short, the supply of new lawyers will be much more closely aligned with the demand for their services...
April 19, 2014
Is now the ideal time to enroll in law school? Steven Freedman, assistant dean for admissions at the University of Kansas School of Law, has been making the counterintuitive case that it is. In a series of posts on the law professor blog The Faculty Lounge, he argues that the relatively small number of people set to graduate with J.D.s in 2017 will mean better job prospects for those who do. In short, the supply of new lawyers will be much more closely aligned with the demand for their services...
‘Very Modest’ Jobs Growth Seen For Law School Graduates
April 14, 2014
The law school class of 2013 didn’t have much better luck than their predecessors in finding jobs, as entry-level employment data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association revealed that very little changed in the hiring market. Altogether, 57 percent of the 46,776 students who graduated in 2013 found full-time, long-term jobs that required bar passage within nine months of graduation, compared with 56.2 percent the previous year. An additional 10.1 percent landed jobs for which a J.D....
April 14, 2014
The law school class of 2013 didn’t have much better luck than their predecessors in finding jobs, as entry-level employment data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association revealed that very little changed in the hiring market. Altogether, 57 percent of the 46,776 students who graduated in 2013 found full-time, long-term jobs that required bar passage within nine months of graduation, compared with 56.2 percent the previous year. An additional 10.1 percent landed jobs for which a J.D....
Law Professors Give ABA an Earful on Tenure’s Future
January 9, 2014
The American Bar Association proposal to eliminate its tenure requirement for law schools drew a hostile reception during the Association of American Law School’s annual meeting in New York over the weekend. An overflow crowd of law professors packed into a meeting room during a panel discussion on Saturday to express outrage over the idea. The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar billed the discussion as an opportunity to learn about the myriad changes on the table as it updates...
January 9, 2014
The American Bar Association proposal to eliminate its tenure requirement for law schools drew a hostile reception during the Association of American Law School’s annual meeting in New York over the weekend. An overflow crowd of law professors packed into a meeting room during a panel discussion on Saturday to express outrage over the idea. The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar billed the discussion as an opportunity to learn about the myriad changes on the table as it updates...
Nation’s Law Schools See Lowest Enrollment Since 1975
December 27, 2013
The number of entering law students nationwide dropped below 40,000 this fall for the first time in close to four decades. According to figures released by the American Bar Association, law schools enrolled 39,675 new students this fall—an 11 percent decrease from the 44,481 students who enrolled last fall. The last time law schools saw such low 1L enrollment was 1975, when there were 163 ABA-accredited law schools. There are 202 such schools today. Even more ominous for law schools administrators,...
December 27, 2013
The number of entering law students nationwide dropped below 40,000 this fall for the first time in close to four decades. According to figures released by the American Bar Association, law schools enrolled 39,675 new students this fall—an 11 percent decrease from the 44,481 students who enrolled last fall. The last time law schools saw such low 1L enrollment was 1975, when there were 163 ABA-accredited law schools. There are 202 such schools today. Even more ominous for law schools administrators,...
First-Year Law School Enrollment At 1977 Levels
December 18, 2013
First-year enrollment at U.S. law schools plunged to levels not seen since the 1970s, as students steered away from a career that has left many recent graduates loaded with debt and struggling to find work. The American Bar Association said on Tuesday that the number of first-year law students fell 11% this year. So far, 39,675 full-time and part-time students enrolled in law school, nearly 5,000 fewer than in 2012. That’s one student shy of 1977 enrollment levels, when the ABA reported 39,676 ...
December 18, 2013
First-year enrollment at U.S. law schools plunged to levels not seen since the 1970s, as students steered away from a career that has left many recent graduates loaded with debt and struggling to find work. The American Bar Association said on Tuesday that the number of first-year law students fell 11% this year. So far, 39,675 full-time and part-time students enrolled in law school, nearly 5,000 fewer than in 2012. That’s one student shy of 1977 enrollment levels, when the ABA reported 39,676 ...
Five Initiatives That Legal Education Needs
September 28, 2013
Just like every other corner of the profession, legal education is grappling with a New Normal that was barely appreciated as recently as four or five years ago. Even as law schools welcomed incoming classes this year, the mood has changed. And it’s no secret why. Applications are down nationally for the third year in a row. And larger law firms are significantly cutting backon their entry-level hiring. The American Bar Association is also starting to focus on changes to legal education,...
September 28, 2013
Just like every other corner of the profession, legal education is grappling with a New Normal that was barely appreciated as recently as four or five years ago. Even as law schools welcomed incoming classes this year, the mood has changed. And it’s no secret why. Applications are down nationally for the third year in a row. And larger law firms are significantly cutting backon their entry-level hiring. The American Bar Association is also starting to focus on changes to legal education,...
Against Reinvention: More Forward Not Backward
September 4, 2013
It's fashionable nowadays to talk about reinventing and disrupting the legal profession. We celebrate "legal rebels " — The American Bar Association's list contains many admirable choices. Daniel Katz and Renee Knake, faculty at the Michigan State University's law school, have done the global community a great service with their ReinventLaw events. But I've long felt cognitive dissonance around the reinvent meme. If something has already been invented, what's the point of reinventing it? If things...
September 4, 2013
It's fashionable nowadays to talk about reinventing and disrupting the legal profession. We celebrate "legal rebels " — The American Bar Association's list contains many admirable choices. Daniel Katz and Renee Knake, faculty at the Michigan State University's law school, have done the global community a great service with their ReinventLaw events. But I've long felt cognitive dissonance around the reinvent meme. If something has already been invented, what's the point of reinventing it? If things...
ABA Techshow: Southwest by South
April 7, 2013
The southwest and south exhibit halls to the American Bar Association's Techshow at the Chicago Hilton opened Thursday. There were no flash mobs, but plenty of signs in the southwest hall that new and enhanced products continue to be released afterLegalTech New York. Among the offerings: • Santa Clara, Calif.-based Connected Datadebuted its Transporter product (pictured left). It is an on-premise, network storage device designed to share files with other Transporter devices anywhere in the world,...
April 7, 2013
The southwest and south exhibit halls to the American Bar Association's Techshow at the Chicago Hilton opened Thursday. There were no flash mobs, but plenty of signs in the southwest hall that new and enhanced products continue to be released afterLegalTech New York. Among the offerings: • Santa Clara, Calif.-based Connected Datadebuted its Transporter product (pictured left). It is an on-premise, network storage device designed to share files with other Transporter devices anywhere in the world,...
